Happy Mother’s Day!!!

Paradise (predella panel)

Giovanni di Paola

Italian, Sienese

1445

Tempera and gold on canvas, transferred from wood

Metropolitan Museum of Art

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/06.1046

This exquisite painting and a panel of the Creation and Expulsion from Paradise in the Metropolitan (Robert Lehman Collection, 1975.1.31) were both probably from the predella of an altarpiece formerly on the Guelfi altar in San Domenico, Siena, painted in 1445. In this vision of Paradise, filled with flowers and trees, groups of saints and angels embrace. The composition derives from Fra Angelico’s paintings in Florence of the Last Judgment, but its combination of intensity and decorative effect is typical of Giovanni di Paolo’s style. The rich floral setting may derive from northern tapestries, much prized in Siena, where a French weaver was employed.

 

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.

                                                            ~ Henry Ward Beecher

 

A mother is not a person to lean on,

but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

                                                            ~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher

 

What gorgeous iris!  I thank you, kindly.

Last Sunday, we went to the Kirkin’ of the Tartans at St. John’s Cathedral.

It is so nice to go down and see greening trees in Denver!

Yesterday morning, here in Evergreen, the ground was white with fresh snow.

 

What a lovely cathedral!

One of two quilts Carmon made and brought to show us at Wednesday breakfast.

The elk still have their scruffy winter coats.

Soon, now, the females will drop their little ones.

I saw a new-born baby buffalo on the way home today!

Pogo, my temporary house guest, loves to watch the elk.

Nancy and CV

CV had a wonderfully delicious luncheon for Nancy and Jackie, the Birthday Girls.

 

No matter how old a mother is,

she watches her middle-aged children

for signs of improvement.

                                                            ~ Florida Scott-Maxwell

 

May 9, 2010      Sixth Sunday of Easter

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Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; and the word that you hear is not mine, but is from the Father who sent me. ”I have said these things to you while I am still with you. But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid. You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I am coming to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you this before it occurs, so that when it does occur, you may believe. 

John 14:23-29

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you.

John 14:27

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org

Acts 16:9-15

Psalm 67

Revelation 21:10, 21:22—22:5

John 14:23-29 or John 5:1-9